| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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satisfied - if he didn't want to live - he could go and die. Why the hell didn't he go and make a hole in the water, or cut his bloody throat? On this particular occasion the subject of the argument was - at first - the recent increase of the Borough Engineer's salary to seventeen pounds per week. Owen had said it was robbery, but the majority of the others expressed their approval of the increase. They asked Owen if he expected a man like that to work for nothing! It was not as if he were one of the likes of themselves. They said that, as for it being robbery, Owen would be very glad to have the chance of getting it himself. Most of them seemed to think the fact that anyone would be glad to have seventeen pounds a week, proved that it was right for them to pay that amount to the Borough Engineer! Usually whenever Owen reflected |
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